rwallace

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by rwallace 12y ago
On Windows, the linker has an option to do that.
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by rwallace 12y ago
With the caveat that at the tech level required to launch such an attack, destruction of one's home planet would constitute something closer to vandalism of a historic site than destruction of one's species. Of course, if you&#x27
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by rwallace 12y ago
One relevant consideration is that e.g. aluminum manufacturing, while energy-intensive, is also renewable-friendly. That is, suppose you have a gigawatt of solar panels. You can't use them for lighting at night without also supplying s
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by rwallace 12y ago
Another way to look at it is that the market is smart, but like any other information processing system, can only make the right decisions if given the right inputs. For the market to make the right decisions about energy policy, the real c
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by rwallace 12y ago
I'm not even taking a position on whether action A is more morally acceptable than action B. I'm just saying, maybe so, but at the end of the day, not only are they both ethically dodgy but A creates an environment that encourages
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by rwallace 12y ago
Every single time such action is taken, it's counterproductive. It makes the target country more bitter and paranoid, cements the feeling that they have to stick together against the external enemy, encourages their government to escal
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by rwallace 12y ago
And that is one of the reasons it would be a good idea for the US and other Western countries to dial down some of their more aggressive actions: those actions set precedence that encourage other countries like China to match the escalation
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by rwallace 12y ago
I agree with your last sentence, but not your third last. Society could easily afford to invest far more in research than it does, and the investment would be repaid many times over; unfortunately it has not chosen to do so. I don't be
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by rwallace 12y ago
F#. Beautiful language, clean and concise, encourages functional programming without mandating it, type inference gives the benefits of static typing without the boilerplate. And it's a .Net language so you have the full .Net ecosystem
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by rwallace 12y ago
> bullshit. you always need visual confirmation of your target by a human. That would rule out the Phoenix missile, and yet it was built, and the Iranians of all people used it to considerable effect against Iraqi aircraft in the 1980s.
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by rwallace 12y ago
> If consciousness is only a series of states in your brain, does it matter what the order of running that sequence is? I liked Permutation City, but I regard it as something of a cognitive hazard because it's not obvious which part
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by rwallace 12y ago
So, take more photos! It's not like you're being charged by the roll like in the days of film cameras.
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by rwallace 12y ago
It is indeed, but according to the article, the Taipei pilot had five thousand hours of flight experience. If five thousand hours of experience is not sufficient answer, it's time to reevaluate the question.
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by rwallace 12y ago
> I know what you’re thinking. Why the f*ck would you move out of the mecca for startups?!? Actually no, I can understand perfectly well why you would move out of a ridiculously expensive city - but not why you would move to one of the f
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by rwallace 12y ago
Nothing wrong with your work ethic. It seems to be a consistent finding across domains that four or five hours of intellectually demanding work per day is about the limit of what the human brain can handle.
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by rwallace 12y ago
The last resource category is within reach for a lot of people on this site. The second last one is within reach for a few people on this site. But if they're both out of your reach, then you could always add another line summarizing t
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by rwallace 12y ago
And that is a great example of why career advice that uses words like 'dreams' and 'love' is such bullshit. People who follow it end up turning themselves into little more than slaves.
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by rwallace 12y ago
With regard to your first paragraph, it's often the other way around; trying to cater to people's material needs from several thousand miles away through multiple layers of agency problems often ends up doing more harm than good,
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by rwallace 12y ago
That sufficiently intense sound waves can have fire extinguishing properties is unsurprising enough, but what I'm curious about is, how does it not blow out the eardrums of everyone in the neighborhood?
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by rwallace 12y ago
If you read the full text of the original post, it becomes clear that the author does understand the practical arts because he acknowledges that it has to be this way even if it's not what we would ideally like.
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by rwallace 12y ago
> You have to focus your limited resources somewhere, if you don't, you get Google software, which is OK when you look at it in aggregate, but horrible if you're looking for a refined experience in something important. Google s
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by rwallace 12y ago
In reality, birthrates in every developed country have crashed below extinction level; providing an actually universal basic income might help reverse that. But if that's not going to be the case, if 'universal' is going to
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by rwallace 12y ago
> reality becomes suspect and meaningless If you're going to get that hung up on philosophy, reality is already suspect and meaningless. This observation dates back at least to Descartes. His solution involved the ontological argume
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by rwallace 12y ago
I am not entirely without sympathy for the idea of a union modeled after those in e.g. Hollywood; I can see reasonable arguments on both sides. But the guild that controls the medical profession has turned out to be a disaster of such epic
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by rwallace 12y ago
> (I'd probably give them bonus points for mentioning what the Greek words mean, but only because someone who knows that is likely to be someone I'd enjoy working with.) I know what the Greek words mean, but it would never in a
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by rwallace 12y ago
I don't have any citations ready to hand but it's not a controversial claim; a Google search should find some. Intuitively, think of it this way: 'acceptable decibel levels' are what the human ear is optimized to receive
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by rwallace 12y ago
No. Don't use music or any other form of noise to drown out ambient sounds at work. It causes slow but irreversible damage to your hearing. In game theory terms, such an act constitutes rewarding defection (employer insisting on open
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by rwallace 12y ago
Maybe so. On the other hand, a lawyer who loses too many cases is likely being too aggressive on behalf of clients with poor claims, to the detriment of the client, the other party and society in general.
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by rwallace 12y ago
A very interesting point. Note the pattern in responses: 1. Lots of people criticizing the proposed metrics. 2. Hardly anyone proposing ways to improve them (e.g. augmenting them with information about the difficulty of the cases that were
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by rwallace 12y ago
Some people are going to fawn over people who went there, and some aren't. Don't be one of the first category, and to the extent such matters are under your control (e.g. if you have influence over hiring decisions in your place o

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